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U.N. Kills Any Plans to Use Mercury as a Rocket Propellant

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It’s pretty nasty,” says Michael Bender, the international coordinator of the Zero Mercury Working Group (ZMWG). Bender is referring to the 2013 Minamata Convention on Mercury , a U.N. Four industry insiders ultimately confirmed that Apollo Fusion was building thrusters that utilized mercury propellant.

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Perspective: Why Carbon Emissions Should Not Have Been the Focus of the UN Climate Change Summit and Why the 15th Conference of the Parties Should Have Focused on Technology Transfer

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Based on calculations by the International Energy Agency (IEA), 75% of the growth in the world’s energy demand from 2005 to 2030 will come from developing countries. The OPEC Fund for International Development (OPEC Fund). China recently surpassed the US as the world’s biggest producer of GHGs.